Using Prudent Multiplicity as an Approach to Increase Supply Chain Resiliency

As we all experienced, the COVID-19 pandemic exposed fragilities within global supply chains, including the public health supply chains of the more than 70 countries supported by USAID. Consequently, the Chemonics-led USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project—of which I am part—had to confront new challenges including paused manufacturing of essential…